With increasingly powerful android chipsets, are there any plans to offer the server on android?
It would be cool if one (one day) could use a phone to realtime transcode video for older tvs and android devices. Like watching AV1 on a hevc only TV. Or hevc on an h264 only device. All that with only a modern phone.
There is not
Usually it starts with arm support. Raspberry PI etc.
Also, imagine how many potential users will be out there with hardware that can do the transcode. Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 or whatever is needed. Maybe current chipsets already are fast enough to transcode 1080p in hardware. Maybe even 4k?
Hardware transcoding capabilities are just one factor. Mobile OS aren’t designed to run „always on“ servers. They’re very aggressive when it comes to apps running in the background (usually for good reasons, e.g. to prevent locking up memory, draining their batteries…). There’s no guarantee the app will keep responding while the phone is locked or in the app’s running in the background.
That’s interesting.
I went on a 4h train ride recently and noticed that it was super easy for me to stream video from my phone onto my tablet.
All I had to do was to enable hotspot, connect the tablet to that wifi, then enable “wifi server” in X-plore (http sharing) and set it to remain on. (I was surprised to notice that phones today can broadcast wifi (hotspot) while connected to another wifi that’s being shared/extended.)
Vlc was able to play the videos and when seeking I saw speeds of 10MB/s (byte) which means it’s plenty fast. Battery lasted forever too.
I’m just saying. Servers on the go could become a thing.
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